User talk:Dashiellx

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[edit] Welcome!

Hi, and welcome to the Military history WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history.

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[edit] Article category sorting

{{helpme}}

Just wondering why the article I created for John Gunby is falling under J rather then G? Did I do something incorrectly when creating the article? --dashiellx (talk) 11:28, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
You did nothing incorrectly. You just need to know about how categories sort. When you place a category it automatically sorts alphabetically by the article's name, i.e., by whatever the first letter of the title is. The software is not smart enough to recognize that an article is about a person and so should sort by last name. There are two ways to deal with this. The old method was to pipe ("|") the name the category should sort under into each category link. For example in the article at issue you would place each category like this [[Category:People from Maryland|Gunby, John]]. However, an easier way was later invented. Now we place just above the list of categories the following template: {{DEFAULTSORT:Gunby, John}} which tells the software to sort all the categories below it by the name you supply. I have added that to the article. For more information, please see Wikipedia:Categorization. By the way, as you can see I moved your helpme post from the category talk page to here where such posts are better placed. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:41, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation. I have also removed the helpme tag. --dashiellx (talk) 16:06, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for rating French support to Iraq

It's always nice to know someone is reading.

I am a fellow devotee of alternative history. Somewhere, perhaps in an alternate history, there is a wiki or such to discuss such. While I enjoy the political what-ifs, I am especially intrigued about technology transfer. On one visit, I was lucky enough to be able to sit down with a coppersmith who was willing to go out of character. Much to my surprise, the wire-drawing technology was such that I could have built a generator and a very basic radio.

Alternate medical history is interesting as well; there are some things that could have been done earlier if one had the knowledge, but other things where a huge amount of work would have had to precede it. Given an appropriate culture, though, I probably could make penicillin with 18th or 19th century technology.

Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 22:21, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

You are welcome. Good luck with your article. dashiellx (talk) 16:31, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Van Capellen

Thanks for rating the Theodorus Frederik van Capellen article. I could do with some more elucidation of the no-scores on the first three items, though. Would help me to improve it--Ereunetes (talk) 21:21, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

I have changed the score for the referencing, you have done a decent job on that. The main reason it is classed as a start is that there is only a short lead section and only one other section. Take a look at the B classed article for Benedict Arnold. You will see that the Arnold article has more structure, an early life section, a later life section, etc.... It is a biography, so you want to cover as much as you can. The lead section should be more fleshed out to give the read a better idea as to why they want to read the rest of the article. You could break up the Career section into subsections to illustrate the different phases of his career and notable events. As far as the coverage and accuracy, it is a short article so I couldn't see how it really covered the full life of someone who appears to be quite notable.
If you disagree with my assessment or would like another opinion, please feel free to ask by posting a request in the Requests for assessment section of the Military history/Assessment department. --dashiellx (talk) 13:45, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Henry W. Howgate

I just added the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history template and assessed the article as B-Class. But I need help with the syntax as it's reflecting: "??? This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale." Thanks in advance. Rosiestep (talk) 16:32, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Fixed it. Part of the problem was that you had a priority rating syntax and the Military History Task Force doesn't use that. Also, even though you completed the check list, you still need to include the class=B. --dashiellx (talk) 19:21, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Ah ha! I see what you mean. Thanks! --Rosiestep (talk) 19:29, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
No problem. Glad I could help --dashiellx (talk) 00:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A friendly reminder

Edit summary reminder
Hello. I noticed that your edit to Talk:Forrestal class aircraft carrier did not include an edit summary. Please remember to use one for every edit, even minor ones. You can enable the wiki software to prompt you for one before making an edit by setting your user preferences (under Editing) to "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary". There is also a tool you can check to see your current usage of edit summaries. Thanks, -MBK004 18:41, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
P.S. when assessing, make absolutely sure to to do this. -MBK004 18:41, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fort Wood

Thanks you for your attention to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and Fort Leonard Wood (military base). You'll notice that I changed the name of the latter article to correctly reflect the official name of the base, "Fort Leonard Wood"; there is no such place called "Fort Leonard Wood Military Base". I think the new name correctly reflects Wikipedia's conventions for disambiguating article names. I also added a {{For}} template at the front of the placename article since Fort Leonard Wood redirects there. If you do more article moving, please consider where similar aids to the reader would be helpful. Thanks again for your work on Wikipedia. --Kbh3rdtalk 18:27, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Good call on changing the name. --dashiellx (talk) 11:05, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Tag and assess comments

Hi there, thanks for all your work for the Military history project in the current T&A drive. Just a little note, please make sure that you do not delete parameters from the template such as this one. The old-peer-review is needed, without it, the template is broken and is added to this category. There is also no need to add a section saying you have reassesed if you haven't actually reassessed. Thanks for all the hard work. Regards. Woody (talk) 18:20, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for deleting the tag. I will make sure not to do so in the future. As far as adding the comments, I am actually reading every single article. I am noting that the article was reassessed based on my review of the article regardless of changes, or lack thereof, of the previous assessment. --dashiellx (talk) 18:29, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 116th Air Control Wing (United States)

This article actually seems to have some pretty good content. The issues are with links to other wiki articles (None to speak of) and grammar (Short incomplete sentences). I'll clean these up. Not sure if you also expected more content?Marathi_Mulgaa (talk) 00:48, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

The article's content is sufficient, in my opinion. What is really needed to improve this article are some more references and and appropriate inline citations. --dashiellx (talk) 10:55, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia meetup

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[edit] Brazilian Military Police

The Policia Militar are nothing to do with the military, nor are they provost corps ;). I removed the tag. ninety:one 20:16, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

That's fine. I didn't add the tag, it was just there and I wasn't familar enough with the subject to say with 100% confidence that the tag should be removed. --dashiellx (talk) 12:12, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 10th SFG

Hi Dashiellx. You assessed the 10th Special Forces Group (United States) article about a month ago for Tag and Assess '08, and kept it at Start class for referencing issues. I and another user have added several references; would you mind taking a look again, and see if it's up to snuff for B class? Thanks. Parsecboy (talk) 14:44, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Reassessed the article and gave it a B. Before this article could move up to GA some of the paragraphs would need to be expanded as well as references that aren't websites. Let me know if you have any questions or a more specific critique. --dashiellx (talk) 01:12, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lists and DAB class

Please don't assess pages as DAB-Class unless they're formally disambiguation pages (i.e. they have the "This is a disambiguation page..." wording on them); all lists—even very crude ones—should get normal article assessment grades. Thanks! Kirill (prof) 15:42, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Mark Wright (GC)

I'm slightly confused as to why you don't think this meets B-class referencing, in general a signle reference covers a whole paragraph, which is a fairly stadard form of referencing, since the alternative is to put the reference after every sentence within the paragraph. David Underdown (talk) 11:38, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Although every paragraph does have a reference, I feel there are several facts within some of the paragraphs that should be further referenced. For example: "He completed 3 tours in Northern Ireland within 3 years, and was Number One in a mortar detachment by 2003." I feel this should have some sort of reference.
Besides the referencing issues, the article does not meet the B class criteria for coverage, other then his having lived in Edinburgh, there is nothing outside of his military career describing whom this person was. Also, the article is only one section. For it to meet B Class criteria, there should be a lead paragraph as well has at least one other section, but really two - three other sections.
If you disagree with my assesment, please feel free to request a formal B class assesment at [for assessment section of the Military History Assessment Department. --dashiellx (talk) 11:52, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
I don't disagree with the overall asessment, but the examples you've mentioned are precisely things that are included in the overall ref for the paragraph. I also think that if you feel there are things that are under-referenced, it would be helpful if you could tag them - simply saying that it's under-referenced without giving specific examples (or there being existing fact tags in the article) doesn't help improve the article. David Underdown (talk) 12:13, 3 June 2008 (UTC)